By: Mphatso Nkhoma
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Nyasa Times
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi has condemned land grabbing in the capital city Lilongwe from Asian business people by a group of local business traders.
A group f traders over the weekend grabbed land belonging to an Asian businessman in Malangalanga and shared it among themselves.
By: TA Ameerudheen
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: Scroll in
By: Daudi Migereko (Uganda’s Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development and Member of Parliament)
Date: March 24th 2016
Source: New Vision
By: PPI
Date: March 20th 2016
Source: Pakistan Today
Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment’s (SCOPE) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the country’s prominent environmentalist, Tanveer Arif, said on Sunday that bad governance was behind Pakistan’s massive deforestation was colossal loss to green economy.
By: Richard Welford
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: CSR Asia
A new report compiled by the Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace Commission’s Shadow Human Rights Fact Finding Mission to West Papua, has documented human rights abuses and the complicity of businesses in West Papua.
The report documents religious, social and economic discrimination, including how the use of land for major developments has benefited multinationals has excluded Papuans from ownership and jobs. The government is accused of carving up land and giving it to some 50 multinational companies.
By: Devex Editor
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Devex.com
This week in Washington, D.C., the World Bank is hosting its Annual Conference on Land and Poverty, a professional meeting that has swelled considerably in the past five years. Attendee numbers have expanded to a downright packed 1,200 people from governments, development agencies, academia, nongovernmental organizations and technology firms.
By: Rastriya Samachar Samiti
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: The Himalayan Times
BHAKTAPUR: In a bid to keep up with e-governance service recently introduced by the government, the Bhaktapur District Land Revenue Office (DLRO) has switched to online land registration service.
Officiating secretary at the Ministry of Land Reform and Management Nagendra Jha inaugurated the service on Wednesday.
By: SABC
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: SABC News
South Africa's main house of Parliament took a first step on Tuesday towards enabling the state to make compulsory purchases of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership.
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Shanghai Daily / Xinhua
CHINA’S leaders have called for more to be done to facilitate “new-type urbanization,” saying fresh achievements must be made in the area this year.
In an instruction, President Xi Jinping asked authorities to uphold the concepts of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness and sharing in the urbanization process.
By News24Wire
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Business Tech
Changes in property ownership in South Africa have been nothing short of dramatic in the last two decades and is one of the biggest success stories, but is never brought to the fore, economist Mike Schussler told Fin24.
Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
EDITORIAL
Land disputes involving farmers, pastoralists and investors have been plaguing Tanzania for years.
Cases are numerous in land tribunals and even the High Court. So serious are such misunderstandings that people have been killed or injured, livestock wounded, homes set alight, farms destroyed and hostilities lingered.
